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Maoist guerrillas have killed a village official in Orissa's Koraput district, police said Sunday.

India has conveyed to friendly countries like the US that it has evidence of Pakistani state actors' involvement in the Mumbai terror attack, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said.

Denying reports of India being marginalised in the emerging US strategy in Afghanistan at Pakistan's behest, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said the US has never pressed New Delhi "directly or indirectly" to cut its presence in the violence-hit country.

Even as the Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to dismiss as "absurd" the freshly mounting claims in India that Mumbai terror plotter David Coleman Headley was a double agent gone rogue, there is now a virtual stonewall around what his covert connections might have been.

A man suffered serious injuries after being set on fire while asleep here early Sunday, apparently over a property row, police said. Two of his cousins have been detained as suspects.

Taliban militants have killed four tribesmen they abducted 10 days ago in Pakistan's north Waziristan tribal region after accusing them of spying for the US, officials said Sunday.

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A suspected explosive was found in the cargo compartment of a Kingfisher flight that arrived here from Bangalore, police said. The civil aviation ministry has ordered a probe into what officials admitted was a security lapse.

At least four people were killed and a dozen injured Sunday when a suicide bomber riding on a bicycle hit a police van in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province.

A 30-year-old warden of a children's home has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district on charges of sexually abusing a 11-year-old boy for over one year, police said Sunday.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna says that Indian aid workers in Kabul have become “soft targets” for terrorists who want to derail India-Afghan relations.